Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
2 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
3 | But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her |
4 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |
5 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
6 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
7 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
8 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
9 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
10 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
11 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
12 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
13 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
14 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
15 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
16 | He never put in an appearance until early evening and , except for that first night , he had not even been home for dinner . |
17 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
18 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
19 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
20 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
21 | I have n't been here for ages and ages ! |
22 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
23 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
24 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
25 | These have been here for months |
26 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |
27 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
28 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
29 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |
30 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |